Parallel of Shakespeare and Scott: Being the Substance of Three Lectures on the Kindred Nature of Their Genius, Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Chichester, 1833 and 1834 (Classic - Hardcover

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9780332189024: Parallel of Shakespeare and Scott: Being the Substance of Three Lectures on the Kindred Nature of Their Genius, Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Chichester, 1833 and 1834 (Classic

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Excerpt from Parallel of Shakespeare and Scott: Being the Substance of Three Lectures on the Kindred Nature of Their Genius, Read Before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Chichester, 1833 and 1834

To this power of appropriation, we owe many of the beauties and excellencies of both our authors. Nor is this fact any derogation of their merits; any more than it is discreditable to a painter that his whole picture is not original; that he looks abroad for models of excellence; that he takes a sketch from a painting in one place, and a study from nature in another, and works them up with his own inventions and conceptions.

Johnson aggrandizes this appropriative power too highly when he says, that genius is only the power of using to any certain purpose the materials which dili gence procures. Attribute of genius, the inventive faculty. He was him self a man of great attainments, but of little inventive genius. But a more recent authority has made a similar declaration in favour of the power of appropriation. You will probably recognise it; and of its eloquence and force there can be but one Opinion.

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